i think cars is a really big part of it, but i think there was this slightly odd few years in the market just now where the cars weren't connected. And people would resort to sticking their phone on the dashboard because they wanted to have life traffic and this kind of thing. Now the cars have now caught up, and they are now becoming connected. I mean, great example being this jaguo landover up being being pushed remotely. But a few years ago, that was almost unheard of in the car business. So now people are using, as you say, as a nice screen in the middle of their car. It's better than sticking my phone as or sticky taping
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on two guests this week. First up is Steven Levy, editor-at-large at Wired and author Facebook: The Inside Story, to talk about Sheryl Sandberg’s original “deal” with Mark Zuckerberg (5:00), what Facebook was in the early days (7:10), the failure of the Zuck-Sheryl partnership (9:30), consolidation of Zuckerberg’s power (19:00), the Washington DC operation (21:00), what Sandberg does next (26:30), and what Meta does next (31:20). Then Chris Sheldrick, co-founder and CEO of What3words, comes on to talk about dividing the world into 57 trillion squares (36:30), the origin of the idea (38:40), getting the world to sign up (42:00), partnering with Jaguar Land Rover (44:10), breaking into America and other markets (46:50), the battle for mapping dominance (50:15), the business model (54:20), translating the system into different languages (55:50), and getting its first contract - in Mongolia (57:40)
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